As an individual, I believe in reading up and gaining additional knowledge for the betterment of oneself, for learning is a lifetime activity. A big advantage of having lots of general knowledge is the contextualization of one knowledge domain onto another, from which we could derive useful real-life applications. We can apply this onto investing as well. As a war history buff, I shall share an interesting bite on World War 2: In the second half of 1944 on the western European front, the Allied commanders were debating on whether to approach Germany on a broad front (i.e., keeping and moving the front line as even as possible), or to adopt a narrow front (i.e., one part of the front move further in than other part(s)). Eventually the broad front strategy, favoured by the Supreme Allied Commander, General Dwight D. Eisenhower (who went on to become the President of the United States in the 1950s), prevailed....